Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England . The Saxon word Hearh t means either a temple oran Hearga is the word by which the famiinat Godmundingham and Redwalds/<r?;/?/;// is translatedin Alfreds version of Bede. It seems possible thatthis word may be the root of such place-names as * Professor Skeat, in letters to the present writer, t Anglo-Saxon nom. hearh; doX. hearge; pi. nom. heargas. ManyEnglish words are formed on dative types. X In Icelandic, hdrgr=^ a heathen place of worship, an altar of stoneerected on a high place, or a sacrificial cairn built in the
Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England . The Saxon word Hearh t means either a temple oran Hearga is the word by which the famiinat Godmundingham and Redwalds/<r?;/?/;// is translatedin Alfreds version of Bede. It seems possible thatthis word may be the root of such place-names as * Professor Skeat, in letters to the present writer, t Anglo-Saxon nom. hearh; doX. hearge; pi. nom. heargas. ManyEnglish words are formed on dative types. X In Icelandic, hdrgr=^ a heathen place of worship, an altar of stoneerected on a high place, or a sacrificial cairn built in the open air, andwithout images. OUR HEATHEN FOREFATHERS. 13 Harrow-on-the-Hill, Harrowgate, Yorks, and Harrow-den, Northants. Such place-names as Wednesbury,Wedensfield, Satterthwaite, Satterleigh, Baldersby,Balderstone, Bulderton, and those of which Thor orThur is the first syllable, may possibly indicate placeswhere a temple or an idol or well has existed ofWoden, or Saeter, or Baldur, or Thor; as Thrus Kell(Thors Well) in Craven.* * Whitakers Craven, p. CHAPTER II. THE CONVERSION OF THE ENGLISH.
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